Projects & Marco Island

You may remember me telling you about the coffee table story last spring. It's here if you missed it. I promised Andrew that I would spend $100.00 or less for chairs for our new table, I realized quickly that was going to be hard since all the chairs I like were $100.00 each or more. Last fall a friend decided to redo her kitchen and was giving her chairs away to goodwill when I asked her if she would give them to me instead. She told me they needed a lot of work but I was willing to do it since they were free. I was originally going to paint the chairs white and recover the cushion that was on there but it was too high for my table so we went to plan B.

(Before)

I decided on a pale blue(almost looks white in the picture but they are blue) because our table has cream distressed legs and I felt white would not flow great with the cream. I stripped the cushion down to the wood and attached several layers of new batting. I then covered our new seats with tan linen and used liquid nails to glue it back in place.

(after)

Here are the newly painted chairs around our table. Excuse the pumpkin and turkey, I snapped these pictures around Thanksgiving to share with you, but I am just not getting around to it. I spent $20.00 on paint and batting and I already had the linen, so there you go, four chairs for $20.00!

Moving right along...our anniversary trip was so fun and I wanted to share a few pictures I snapped while we were there. We went to Marco Island, FL which is deep south Florida. It's about a twelve hour drive from our home in Birmingham but it was worth every second of it.

I hauled our wedding cake down there with us and believe it or not it was still really good. We both only had a bite of it at our wedding so I was glad it was still good.

Andrew found these sea shells for me while we were waiting on the sunset one night. He thought it was funny to keep piling them on knee, but little does he know I kept all of them.

The sunset is directly behind the water in Marco so you can imagine just how beautiful they are.

Isn't this breathtaking??

Lingerie Shower

I am back today with a few pictures of the decorations from Hanna's shower this weekend. I love planning parties and this was probably one of my most favorite since it was so girly. The colors were light pink and hot pink polka dots with small touches of lime green.

(wreath I made out of fabric scraps and a wire wreath form)

The invitation had bras and panties across the top so I had to incorporate that too

Pink polka dot H (for Hanna)

Pink Lemonade in cups that said "I am the Bride that's why"

The food table. We had an ice cream bar with several different toppings. I had www.shophollydays.com print the food labels. (they also matched the invitation and even had a bra on each one)

I ordered hot pink cups from www.shopsweetlulu.com and had hollydays print the stickers that said something frilly, something sexy, something sweet on them.

I made the table runner out of the same pink polka dot fabric to match the wreath and the bras and panties on the mantle. I just had to monogram ooh la la on the end of each side.

The bra and panties cake bites matched everything so perfect.

and I couldn't resist adding a picture of the precious bride herself! Isn't she so cute with that bride veil on? Her wedding is in less than two weeks! So excited!!

Happy Friday!

Last week hubs and I took a long vacation! It was much needed time with him! We really had a blast doing pretty much nothing the whole week. The blog has suffered this week because work had to come first.

I am also preparing my house for a fun lingerie shower for one of my best friends and my soon to be sister in law. It is going to be a blast and I can't wait to show pictures of the cute decorations on Monday!

I also have had a heavy heart this week. One of my other best friends brother in law has cancer and had surgery yesterday. You can follow his story here: www.caringbridge.org/visit/bradbooth

It is amazing to see how the Lord is working in his life. Please lift him up in prayer as well as his sweet wife Stacey! I can't imagine what she is going through. Our God is so much bigger than cancer and that has been proven this week.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Photo 1: here Photo 2: here

06.12.2010

I can hardly believe that on Sunday I celebrate one year of marriage to my wonderful husband. When Andrew and I got engaged we were trying to decide where to get married because our church is very large and I wanted a much smaller venue.(and a white building) I had remembered a beautiful building in Rosemary Beach and when I googled it and saw the pictures I immediately picked up the phone and called my mom and told her that was the place! Just about a week later (with a little begging from my dad) we booked the Town Hall for June 12th! We learned quickly that it was hard to plan a wedding from another state but somehow managed to get everything done over emails. It sure did take lots and lots though!

This time last year I was waking up to my first day at the beach house! Mom and I drove over to Pensacola to pick up all the flowers for our wedding. It was a wonderful morning of bonding with her! I have chosen a few of my favorite pictures from the day to share with you! The entire week was so wonderful! My bridesmaids were life savers as they helped me with everything from going to grocery store to doing last minute laundry for my honeymoon, to helping so much on our actual wedding day! Our wedding wouldn't have been a success without them and without so many countless other people! My heart is still filled with so much joy just thinking back to last year. We are surrounded with such wonderful family and friends!

My beautiful momma

the boys in their cute seersucker suits


we were taking pictures and my dad decided to come out and get in! I think this picture is so funny. (and so him)

we were blessed with a beautiful day and such a beautiful place to get married

here we are waiting to walk down the aisle! I was so excited

we had a bell-ringer that was suppose to run down the aisle ringing the bell to let everyone know I was coming but he got scared and it ended up his daddy had to go pick him up and walk him down the aisle. (it was a funny moment...so I heard)

walking down to become husband and wife, a day we had been waiting on for a very long time! Andrew and I waited to see each other until that moment and it was such a wonderful moment. I could not stop smiling from the time I first saw him.

I love this picture...Andrew kept saying funny things during the worship song! I couldn't stop laughing at him.

We are MARRIED!! YAY!

Our entire wedding party on the beach! Such a fun moment!

our first dance

It has been such a wonderful first year! We have learned so much about ourselves and each other! It is so fun knowing that lord willing I am going to spend my life with wonderful man who is my best friend.

chalkboard talk

Chalkboards are everywhere these days! Every time I turn around I see them used for something else. I love chalkboards and think they are a perfect touch to any setting.

I love this one used as a menu!!
These mason jars double as seating chart and their drink glass! Cute way not to use so many glasses.

This is a chalkboard at my house! I had a baby shower at my house at my house a few weeks ago and I used it to add a personal touch to the shower!

These chalkboards were used at my wedding. I made them for all the tables. I simply used a wal-mart frame, thick card stock and chalkboard paint. (you can find the chalkboard paint at your local hardware shop)

After the paint dried I simply added the heart with our initials in the center!

It was such a fun and easy project and added character to our wedding!

Photo credit: 1-3 stylemepretty.com, 4-piperphotography.com

s'moreo

just here with a few pictures that I have had saved for this little blog for almost a year now!

I love this old table as an island/table.

I saw this picture on facebook earlier and I have been craving one ever since! Look how yummy this looks!

It's good to be back!

the last two months...

have been quite eventful to say the least. I cannot believe how fast time has flown by. So many fun things have happened while I have been away, so I wanted to take a few minutes to share them with you.

My Brother-in-law got engaged to his girlfriend the week before Thanksgiving. They are getting married in July, and we are so excited for them. I love Hanna and I am so excited that she will be apart of the family, although I have already thought of her as my sister for a long time. I am looking forward to helping her plan her wedding!

Isn't she so beautiful??

A couple of weeks ago Andrew and I had a Christmas shower for them at our house. It was so much fun. I have to give a shout out to the hubby...he really did a great job with helping me pull it off. Thanks love!

They got so many cute Christmas decorations. Too bad she will have to wait a whole year to use them.

We also got our tree. It was a special treat because Andrew has never had a real tree before so we had a blast picking it out and putting it up.

Here's our first tree. It's a pretty modest tree...we don't have too many ornaments yet and the picture is kind of blurry. Sorry!

This past weekend we spent the night at Opryland Hotel in Nashville. It was so beautiful and we had a blast. Look at how every inch of these trees are wrapped in lights. They start decorating in July. Isn't that so crazy?

We are so excited about first Married Christmas!It is such a special year for us and I hope we will always look back at it and smile! We hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas as well!